Ecosystems Vocabulary

An organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that needs to eat other organisms to survive

• consumer

• producer

• abiotic

• ecosystem

An animal that eats only animals 

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

• decomposer

An animal that eats only plants 

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

• decomposer

A consumer that eats plants and animals

• herbivore

• carnivore

• producer

• omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A living organism that breaks down dead organisms into smaller parts that can be reused by other living things

• decomposer

• producer

• ectotherm

• community

An organism that is too small to see

• producer

• microbe

• ecosystem

• endotherm

A substance, usually a mineral, needed for the healthy growth of living things

• cycle

• carnivore

• microbe

• nutrient

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

The pathway of food energy through an ecosystem;

it is a straight line from the Sun to plants to animals

• biotic

• producer

• food chain

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

 A model of the transfer of energy within a set of interconnected food chains

• food chain

• abiotic

• food web

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3